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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

Billy Joel

Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
BILLY JOEL

Music Player Thinking
I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
BILLY JOEL

Boys Drinking Inspirational
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOEL

Education Fire Long
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
BILLY JOEL

Kindness People Reality
I watched the mighty skyline fall
BILLY JOEL

Fall Mighty Skylines Watched
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
She’s got a smile that heals me.
BILLY JOEL

Compliment Heal Smile
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

Heart Loud Musician Voices
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
BILLY JOEL

Old Share Told Truth
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
BILLY JOEL

Memories Regular Shuffles Son Sweet
So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
BILLY JOEL

Break Decision Make One Only
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Meditation Religious
You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOEL

Given Needs Relationship
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOEL

Cold Junk Punk Rocks Roll
Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
BILLY JOEL

Color Philosophy Rainbow
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
BILLY JOEL

Islands Men Sea

It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

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